US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Coding and decoding methods and apparatuses" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,178, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Coding and decoding methods and apparatuses" was invented by Xiaoqiang Cao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding and decoding methods and apparatuses are provided. A decoding method includes: determining a prediction mode of a current block; when it is determined that the prediction mode of the current block satisfies one of the following conditions, determining the current block satisfies transform skip mode conditions: the prediction mode of the current block is an inter prediction mode; and the prediction mod...